Badgersize Company has the following information for its Forming Department for the month of August.
Work in Process Inventory, August 1: 20,000 units
Direct materials: 100% complete $ 80,000
Conversion: 20% complete 24,000
Balance in work in process, August 1 $ 104,000
Units started during August 49,000
Units completed and transferred in August 60,000
Work in process (70% complete), August 31 ?
Costs charged to Work in Process in AugustDirect materials $140,000Conversion costs:Direct labor $105,000Overhead applied 148,000Total conversion $253,000Assume materials are added at the start of processing. Required:1. Calculate the equivalent units for the Forming Department for the month of August.2. Find the cost per equivalent of input resource.

"in my opinion, we ought to stop making our own drums and accept that outside supplier's offer," said wim niewindt, managing director of antilles refining, n.v., of aruba. "at a price of $21 per drum, we would be paying $4.70 less than it costs us to manufacture the drums in our own plant. since we use 70,000 drums a year, that would be an annual cost savings of $329,000." antilles refining's current cost to manufacture one drum is given below (based on 70,000 drums per year):

Reliability and validity reliability and validity are two important considerations that must be made with any type of data collection. reliability refers to the ability to consistently produce a given result. in the context of psychological research, this would mean that any instruments or tools used to collect data do so in consistent, reproducible ways. unfortunately, being consistent in measurement does not necessarily mean that you have measured something correctly. to illustrate this concept, consider a kitchen scale that would be used to measure the weight of cereal that you eat in the morning. if the scale is not properly calibrated, it may consistently under- or overestimate the amount of cereal that’s being measured. while the scale is highly reliable in producing consistent results (e.g., the same amount of cereal poured onto the scale produces the same reading each time), those results are incorrect. this is where validity comes into play. validity refers to the extent to which a given instrument or tool accurately measures what it’s supposed to measure. while any valid measure is by necessity reliable, the reverse is not necessarily true. researchers strive to use instruments that are both highly reliable and valid.

Which of the following has the largest impact on opportunity cost